The backlash against the cops is getting out of hand, but are we surprised, are we listening, yet?

What’s the thought process, today? “There’ll be more civilian killings until morale improves!”

Cops who kill civilians need to be tried in a court system that is separate from the system used to try civilians. There’s no way a court designed to believe the cop’s testimony above all else can possibly fairly try a cop, or a civilian for that matter. No wonder they’re usually acquitted for the murders they do.

Killing cops in retribution isn’t the answer but it’s obviously the symptom of a judicial system that is ceasing to function.

Fix the system now. Convict the killing cops and the problem will go away. Continue to neglect the problem like we’re doing now, and it will get worse, much worse.

Most news outlets are calling the Orlando murders “Mass Shooting” and some even admit that it’s terrorism. Unfortunately, everyone seems to be afraid to call it whatit really is – religious extremism. This is the same kind of extremism we witness regularly by our religious right murdering doctors and clinic employees and patients.

You see the media being so very careful to state ISIS when referring to radical extremism, so careful not to offend the American terrorists.

Just like other mental problems, America can only begin to recover from our extremism when we are willing to admit that we have a problem with our own conservative extremism, religious and political.

The media is the only mechanism we have for facing the facts but we can’t when they hide the facts from us.

The big mistake the Democratic politicians have been making for the past 30 years, the big reason Democrats are sick of voting for them, is that they campaign to the base (the Progressives) in the primary election and then move to the center to try to get the moderate voters in the general election.

How has this worked for the Democrats? I’ll tell you how. It’s pissing off the Democratic voters enough that they are leaving. Why is the Democratic part so ignorant that they can’t see this?

So, now Hillary says she has the primary election all wrapped up and she and Obama are saying it’s time for the rest of the party to come over to her side.

Here’s what I say about that. Bullshit! Those who aren’t voting for Hillary think she’s just another Republican. As she moves more to the right to foolishly try to catch the moderate voters, she will be further abandoning the real Democrats on the left.

Why should any of us come to the Republican side and vote for Hillary while she moves further and further into Republican territory?

We won’t! If Hillary wants the Democratic voters to vote for her, and not just the moderates, then she will have to move further into the Democratic camp, not further into the Republican camp.

Why is there even the slightest chance that a Republican idiot like Trump could get elected president? Because the Democrats are sick of their party moving further and further into the conservative crazy train. We are sick of voting for Republican lite politicians. We’re sick of voting for someone who says one thing in the primary and then moves into the enemy camp for the general election.

Hey, Hillary, if you don’t want your base, the Sanders supporters to stay home on election day, give us a Democrat to vote for, not just another Republican.

One of the most important issues is that abortions are going down in developed countries but going up in under developed countries. Countries where women have access to birth control show a lower abortion rate.

What does that mean for America? If the Republicans get their way, birth control will continue to be difficult or impossible for some women to obtain. Add to that, the Republicans are pushing for abstinence-only education, making it even more likely that there will be unwanted pregnancies.

If you’re against abortion, you need to get the Republicans out of power in the USA.

If you’re one of the Trump supporters who felt Trump was safe from the influence of the 1% because he is rich enough ro fund his own campaign, think again. Trump is now soliciting campaign donations from billionaires to help fund his campaign.

Don’t you feel foolish for believing his lies? Don’t you wonder about what else he has lied about?

Gun ownership in the US has exploded and along with it the number of gun deaths has gone up as well, just as one would expect. It is quite concerning that many of those gun owners have the mental capacity of a squirrel or NRA member, believing that “more guns” is the solution.

This means that many of those mentally challenged gun toting people are out there with their weapons loaded driving their cars and sharing our public spaces, shooting up our schools and theaters.

This has got to stop. The US has got to take a stand against this stupidity and the needless deaths.

Now, dont jump to conclusions, I’m a strong advocate for the right to own guns, within reason. I even enjoy target practice, myself.

It’s sad that I see these squirrels on the social media sites spewing their NRA talking points but never sticking around long enough to defend their mistaken positions or risk actually finding out theyre on the wrong side of history.

Why do we continue to sacrifice our safety and the safety of our children so those iimbeciles can make up for their insecurities at our expense?

According to numerous university research studies, the earth is now in the 6th great extinction.

Why should you care?

According to their findings, humans will be one of the earliest species to vanish.

Every time we hear someone denying global warming, we need to humiliate them so their stupidity doesn’t infect other people. We have to fix this train wreck and we have to start serious changes immediately.

The main stream media (owned by billionaires and run by millionaires) does everything in their power to prevent senator Sanders’ voice from getting heard. The reason is that his voice frightens them to death.

They are afraid that if America hears what Bernie Sanders has to say, people will wake up to the failure of the media. America will wake up to the fact that our news is so corrupted by money that the real issues are no longer reported. Look at the news coverage on Baltimore, for example. Non of the major news outlets explain what is causing the unrest in middle America.

Bernie Sanders, today, asked that the media clean up their act and not treat the election as a horse race or an opportunity to play politics, but rather to talk about the issues that the candidates present. Do you know what the media did with this challenge?

You guessed it, they flat out ignored him. “Bernie who?”

Don’t discount this man as a viable candidate. He already has the same approval rating that Obama did at this point in his election.

Look at what Bernie Sander has to say and look at how he has voted and you will find that he represents the interests and wishes of the vast majority of Americans.

What things really matter most to you? Here are things almost all of America agrees with Bernie Sanders on:

No more lousy free trade agreements

Bring our jobs home

Improve the pay of the poor and middle class

Save the environment

Get our billionaires under control

Get our billionaires out of our government

Go see what Sanders has to offer. Don’t wait for the media to tell you because it’s in their best interest to ignore anyone who wishes to reduce the strangle hold the wealthy have on our country.

Due to pathetic Democratic turnout in the Congressional election, the Oligarchy is now in control. This is what our elections will look like from here on out, unless we can get money out of politics.

And the only way we can get money out of politics is to get the Republicans out of power. The Republican party loves prostituting for big doners. They have opposed any correction to Citizens United. Many states and cities are passing referendums supporting the overturn of Citizens United but it will have to be done without the support of the Republicans in control.

In fact, liberal ballot measures all across the nation passed with huge margins. Now, ask yourself, if Republicans and Democrats were voting FOR the liberal laws but AGAINST the liberal politicians, isn’t it an undeniable fact that those people are voting against their own best interests? Isn’t it obvious that the unlimited money in politics is making voters into fools, voting for the things they want but against the representatives they need to get those things into law?

It is a fact that negative advertising doesn’t get voters to vote for the opponent, but makes them not want to vote at all. Maybe that’s why this was the lowest voter turn out since 1942.

Why?

Negative advertising.

If you are one of the voters who stayed home, your absence was the same as a vote against anything you want or need. Way to go! You can’t let the negative ads deter you from getting out and voting.

We are coming down to the wire this election cycle. We have one last week of early voting in Nevada.

Let’s all make sure we vote and that two of our friends vote too, and two of their friends…

Many people consider this election less important than the presidential election, but they’re wrong. The constitution creates the Congress to be the strongest and most critical of all three branches of government. There are more pages on the role of Congress than the president and the courts combined.

This election will decide if we want our president to do the things he was elected to do or not.

There are certain political parties that don’t want you to vote. They spare no money on ads convincing you how awful everything is in the hopes you don’t vote. After all, as one political party says, “quite candidly, our leverage in the election goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Get out there today. This just may be the most important election in your lifetime.

It is a real disgrace but we are suffering a multi million dollar ad campaign, or should I say lie and deceive campaign against the amendment, Nevada ballot measure, question #3.

I will try to add some reality to the actual question and try to dispel the most common lies and deception. Most of the talking points can be found at their website, Coalition to Defeat the Margin Tax Initiative.

The tax is a small, contrary to the claim, “huge,” in the lies. 2% is a small tax.

The tax is only calculated on the gross sales if the company wants to file that way. Even then, it’s 70% of 2% or 1.4%. Not all so huge.

If the business decides to, they can claim tax only on proceeds after subtracting cost of goods sold (and that includes labor/payroll costs). In other words, a business that is making millions in sales but little or no profit will have little or no tax since cost of goods sold will be almost as much as gross sales.

The money collected will be put in the State Distributive School Account, to be distributed in a manner provided by laws that already govern those funds. There is no risk that the funds will not go to the school district.

Few if any businesses will have to close or relocate because of this tax. However, if the companies elect to move rather than repaying the community that supports them, then I say good riddance to bad rubbish.

So much for the down side of this ballot measure. Let’s now consider the good:

It is in the state’s best interest to decouple the school system funding from our property taxes. The way the system works now, those poor communities where property taxes are low have the lowest funding for their schools.

Getting away from the destructive notion that the rich get a free ride in Nevada because we don’t expect them to pay their fair share in income taxes, is a good move in the right direction. After all, this tax is only for businesses with more than $1 Million in revenue.

If I’ve missed anything here, go right ahead and make your case in the comments below.

We are now seeing Ebola victims in hospitals all across Africa, in Spain, Germany, and the USA, and so many more.

I hear people say it’s Obama’s fault. Well, the same people say everything is Obama’s fault so their arguments are meaningless. But how should we be dealing with this nightmare?

Should we shut down our airports and turn away everyone from every country that might have an Ebola patient? Maybe only the ones with brown or black Ebola patients?

If we decide to shut down the airports, we should also shut down our sea ports. And for that matter, maybe we should just start shooting anyone who looks like they might be trying to come to the USA.

Well, okay, I was being facetious, but these issues have to be discussed seriously and without fear and hatred.

Thomas, the Ebola patient who died in Texas followed screening guidelines. The news at first was reporting that he lied on the questionnaire, but it turned out that he didn’t realize his relative had Ebola at the time. She died later.

This demonstrates and a little common sense indicates that there is no way we can prevent any and every case from coming to the USA. We should be diligent and limit the numbers who come but to expect to get 100% is just a dream.

So, what do we do to successfully manage this disease once it’s come to the USA? Obviously what we’re doing now isn’t working. The health care worker who worked on Thomas has now come down with the disease. Again, obviously what we’re doing now isn’t working.

We need a national health care system that can work as a unit, following guidelines for preparing for the incoming patients and guidelines on how to treat the patients. This can’t be done on a for-profit basis. Why would a hospital pay the money up front to prepare only to find that they never get an Ebola patient. Thomas was turned away from the hospital on his first visit because they couldn’t make money on him.

What is even more important is that since the Texas Governor wants to play politics with the lives of poor working Texans, a full 25% of working Texans do not even have health insurance. They are not going to be going to the doctor when they really should be. They’ll wait until it’s an emergency and then go to the emergency room in the hospital, all the while spreading the disease.

Thankfully we have Obamacare to help those in the Democratic states. They will be going to the doctors rather than spreading the disease. The red states? All I can say is I hope they wake up before it’s too late.

I stumbled across a children’s health clinic being held at a local hardware store, today.

The horror of our health care industry smacked me right in the face. What have we done with our once great nation?

I saw an endless line of children without health insurance. Some of the children were so sick someone called the ambulance. Even a fire truck showed up. Some of the children were too sick to even stand on their own.

How could we let this nation come to this? How can we be so silent while the Republicans turn this great country into the Libertarian Paradise of Somalia? Children there are dying without health care, too.

Health care is a right, it’s not a privileged offered to only the wealthy. Obamacare is a small, tiny step in the right direction and even that is being opposed by the Republicans. The Republican party wants the sick and the poor to hurry up and just die.

This isn’t the America I read about in school. This is a bizarre nightmare brought on by too much Libertarian Voodoo economics.

This country is falling apart around our ankles and we need to get mad as Hell and get out in the streets and demand progress.

We used to use the phrase, “dumb as a post,” but more fitting in these days would be “dumb as a tea bagger.”

Twenty years ago, when we saw fools voting against their own best interests and wearing three pointed hats with tea bags hanging from them, we would scoff and disapprove. The fools wouldn’t show up in the news except a few humor stories from time to time.

These days, we have a political party intent on taking advantage of the poor misguided fools. They even have their own news media, Fox News, who tried to give the fools legitimacy.

This is not good for America. We need to call a fool a fool and we need to turn off and openly complain about any news media that tried to give legitimacy to the lunacy of the tea party.